Weekly Address: American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan

Wow! Here's an idea whose time has more than come: Jazz on the Tube, "the internet's jazz video juke box." Click here to watch Bud Powell, the greatest jazzman to ever tickle the ivories. You will not believe Bud's hands. Thanks to the New Orleans New Ladder for this one!...

I don't think it's quite fair to condemn the whole program because of a few holes. There's only so much a Corps of Engineers can do...

A tired poet spends the night in the car park at Thoor Ballylee, the gaunt Clare tower where Yeats made his home from 1916-1928. "Then just the noise of a windy western night, the body of the car being buffetted by the gusts, and, briefly, the sneeze of a fox. I also heard a loud crack, as if a branch had broken in the wind ('a pear tree broken')..."

I lay no claim to understanding the tortured politics and history of the Middle East. But I find this sort of obvious propaganda to be racist, offensive, and insulting to anyone's intelligence. It's a mystery to me why the Washington Post continues to give a forum to this guy...

Gingerbread house conflagration here...

A couple of new Citizen K. features: The quote at the top is the first line of a notable book, essay, poem, play, or screenplay. You are welcome to submit your guess as a comment. (Foxessa, no fair guessing this one!) At some random time, I'll put the answer on a sidebar and change the quote. Also, I've changed the NOLA links to reflect a month-by-month calendar of the festivals, parties, and happenings in the Crescent City. It promises to be a long list...